What happened to Jaden Rashada's NIL deal? All we know about lawsuit against Florida's Billy Napier

Georgia Bulldogs quarterback Jaden Rashada has had a turbulent college football career so far. The former four-star prospect has committed to four different programs in the course of two years and still only played three games.

After a $9.5 million offer by a Miami booster, he committed to the Miami Hurricanes in June 2022 before a lucrative offer from the Florida Gators linked "Gator Collective," reportedly worth $13.85 million, made him flip his commitment to coach Billy Napier's team.

After a few months, the deal was rescinded by the Collective and the Gators released Rashada from his National Letter of Intent in January 2023, leading to him transferring to the Arizona State Sun Devils.

Injury struck the quarterback and he only appeared in three games before entering the transfer portal and ending up in coach Kirby Smart's national championship-chasing team.

In May, Rashada filed a suit against Florida coach Billy Napier, Gators staff member Marcus Castro-Walker and Velocity Automotive, the company that the Gators Collective donor Hugh Hathcock used to lure him.

He sued for fraudulent misrepresentation, fraudulent inducement, aiding and abetting fraud, civil conspiracy to commit fraud, negligent misrepresentations, tortious interference, aiding and abetting tortious interference and vicarious liability.

Jaden Rashada and family accuse Billy Napier of lying

Harlen Rashada, the father of Jaden Rashada, accused Florida coach Billy Napier of lying about wiring a million dollars to the quarterback after he signed his National Letter of Intent committing to the Gators.

"Gators Online" analyst Nick De La Torre said on an On3 podcast that the case filed by Rashada might be settled out of court and would likely not cost Florida coach Billy Napier his job.

“I kind of fully expect this to be settled out of court with some pretty ironclad non-disclosure. So, I don’t think we’ll know what the check was for. I don’t see this right now costing Billy Napier his job. I guess the one rumored or reported thing that was in the complaint is that Billy Napier promised a million dollars. There’s no proof to back that up right now," De La Torre said.

"If it’s a voice recording, Florida is a two-party consent state as is California, where the Rashadas live, which means both parties need to know and agree to the voice to the call being recorded. It’s just a rabbit hole.”

The lawsuit by Jaden Rashada against the Florida coach shows the high stakes involved in the new NIL world of college sports.